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“Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.”

Economics Imperfect Foresight Imperfect Things Prevision

Book:Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.”

Way Soul Eye Earth Joy Poetry Tears Evidence Witness Paradise Melancholy Nerves Excess Imperfect Disposition Delay Glimpse Exquisite Tombs Splendor Imperfect Things

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.”

Ifs Matter Presses Imperfect Free Press Imperfect Things

Book:Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.”

Light Opinion Vain Imperfect Crude Imperfect Things

Book:Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version

Source: Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version

“We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.”

Ifs Needs Hard Certain Perfect Path Imagine Including Unhappy Happy Life Imperfect Unhappy Life Imperfect Things

Author:Richard Rohr

“I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.”

Perfect Interesting Fashion Odd Imperfection Imperfect Style Icons Being Imperfect Imperfect Things

Author:Marc Jacobs

“Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.”

Way Change Perfect Perfection Cycles Imperfection Imperfect Perfection And Imperfection Imperfect Things

Book:Resolves: divine, moral and political

Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political

“A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing”

Rich Imperfect Upbringing Imperfect Things

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.”

Knows Needs Past Regret Creating Forgiving Imperfect Flawed Imperfect Things

Author:Kathryn Schulz

“If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.”

People Ifs Knows Want Needs Feels Should Dream Pain Hate Goal Can Do Loses Hurt Regret Creating Forgiving Imperfect Flawed Dreams And Goals When Things Go Wrong Imperfect Things

Author:Kathryn Schulz